cannot import name 'Datetime' python flask sqlalchemy

Question

I'm trying to run a Flask - SQLAlchemy application. What I want to do is add the creation datetime by default at each insert in my table usuario. So far, I have 2 files:

Here, I create Usuario class to create users with some information and add the datetime as a default value.

database_setup.py

import datetime
import os
import sys
# in the next line, i get the error: ImportError: cannot import name 'Datetime'
from sqlalchemy import Column, ForeignKey, Integer, String, Datetime
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
from sqlalchemy import create_engine

Base=declarative_base()


class Usuario(Base):
    __tablename__='usuario'

    id=Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    usuario_id=Column(String(255), nullable=False)
    password=Column(String(200), nullable=False)
    email=Column(String(255), nullable=False)
    nombres=Column(String(300), nullable=False)
    apellidos=Column(String(300), nullable=False)
    # Here, I want to set a default value for each user
    fecha_creacion=Column(Datetime, nullable=False, default=datetime.utcnow)

# String connection to mysql database
engine=create_engine('mysql://user:password@localhost/bdname')


Base.metadata.create_all(engine)

The problem comes here, when I try to run this file from the console:

python3 project.py

I got the next lines:

File "project.py", line 4, in from database_setup import Base, Usuario
File "/home/facturacion/compartido/Cambio/database_setup.py", line 4, in
from sqlalchemy import Column, ForeignKey, Integer, String, Datetime
importError: cannot import name 'Datetime'

project.py

from flask import Flask, flash, render_template, request, redirect, jsonify, url_for, session
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from database_setup import Base, Usuario
import os

app = Flask(__name__)

engine = create_engine('mysql://root:facturacion@localhost/cambio')
Base.metadata.bind = engine

DBSession = sessionmaker(bind = engine)
dbsession = DBSession()

@app.route('/')
def index():
    if 'username' in session:
        return 'Logged in as %s' % session['username']
    return 'Aun no se encuentra logueado'

@app.route('/login',methods=['GET','POST'])
def login():
    if request.method == 'POST':
        usuario_frompost = request.form['username']
        pass_frompost = request.form['password']
        user = None
        if '@' in usuario_frompost:
            user = dbsession.query(Usuario).filter_by(email = usuario_frompost, password = pass_frompost)
        else:
            user = dbsession.query(Usuario).filter_by(usuario_id = usuario_frompost, password = pass_frompost)

        if user:
            flash('Login exitoso')
            session['username'] = request.form['username']
            return redirect(url_for('index'))
    return '''
        <form method="post">
            <p><input type=text name=username>
            <p><input type=password name=password>
            <p><input type=submit value=Login>
        </form>
    '''

@app.route('/logout')
def logout():
    session.pop('username', None)
    return redirect(url_for('index'))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.debug = True
    app.secret_key = os.urandom(24)
    app.run(host = '0.0.0.0', port = 5000)

abigperson abigperson · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-11T21:43:38

5

votes

Very simple, just a typo:

from sqlalchemy import DateTime

DateTime not Datetime

cannot import name 'Datetime' python flask sqlalchemy

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